Reading 8 Vocab List 9

Question 0

Ambitious

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Having strong desire for success or achievement/ requiring full use of ones abilities or recourses

Question 1

Acerbic

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Corrosive in tone/ sour or bitter in taste

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Archeologist

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An anthropologist that study prehistoric people and their culture

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Belabor

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Attack verbally with h arch criticism/ to work at or to extreme lengths/ beat soundly

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Captivate

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Fascinate/ attract/ cause to be enamored

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Concise

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Expressing much in few words

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Corrosive

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A substance especially a strong acid/ capable of eating or destroying through chemical action/ having the tendency to cause corrosion

Question 7

Defile

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A narrow pass between mountains/ a suspicious or doubted place/ spot, stain, or pollute/ to make dirty or spotty if exposed to air/ also used metaphorically

Question 8

Digression

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Wandering from the main path of a journey/ a message that departs from the main subject/ turning your attention or concern aside

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Diversity

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Condition or result of being changed/ noticeable heterogeneity

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Empathy

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Understanding and entering into another’s feelings

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Evoke

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Call to mind/ summon into action or bring into existence often by magic/ deduce or construe/ to bring out emotions

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Fanciful

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Indulging or influenced by fancy/ having curiously intricate quality/ not based on fact/ dubious

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Fragile

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Vulnerably delicate/ easily broken/ lacking solidity or strength

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Hostile

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Unfriendly/ characterized by Emily or ill will/ not of both his side or his opponents side/ unfavorable of life and growth

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Inattention

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Absentminded/ lack of attention

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Inherent

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In the nature of something thought not readily apparent/ existing as an essential characteristic/ existing in someone as a permanent quality

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Invective

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Abusive or venomous language used to express blame, censure, or bitter deep-seated ill will

Question 18

Lethargy

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In state of inactivity/ comatose/ weak

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Modest

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Free from ostentation or pretension/ not large but sufficient/ to be humble of ones self/ marked by simplicity/ free from pomp or affection

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Mystique

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An aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing

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Nourishing

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Beneficial/ encouraging/ providing nourishment

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Omen

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A sign of something about to happen/ indicate by signs

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Outlandish

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Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

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Parsimony

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Extreme care in spending money/ extreme stinginess

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Perfidious

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Tending to betray/ having treacherous character

Question 26

Pessimistic

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Expecting the worst of the worst

Question 27

Poignant

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Emotionally touching, keenly distressing to the mind or feelings, arousing

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Prefatory

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Serving as an intro or preface

Question 29

Profound

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Situated at or extending to great depth/ too deep to have been sounded or plumbed/ coming from deep within one/ of great intensity or completion

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Prosperity

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Prospering, having good fortune, gaining wealth and economy

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Reconcile

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Bring into account or concern, accept as inevitable, make compatible width, come to terms

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Remonstrance

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Expressing earnest opposition or protest

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Resolute

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Firm in purpose or belief, determined, quick, firm

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Rife

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Excessively abundant, encountered generally especially at the present time

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Scope

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A place where something acts as the central source of power or control , electronic equipment that shows a variety of electrical quantities, a magnifier of distant objects

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Sonorous

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Full, loud, deep sound

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Suffrage

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Legal right guaranteed by the 15 amendment to the U.S. constitution, guaranteed to women by the 19 amendment

Question 38

Taciturn

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Habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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Tractable

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Easily managed, readily reacting

Question 40

Tyrannical

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Definite rule, unjust use of power

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Vitriolic

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Especially strong acid

Question 42

Wistful

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Showing pensive sadness